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NO JOHN, YOU ARE THE DEMONS: Questions about the Foundry.

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited November 2010 in The Foundry for Star Trek Online - Discussion & Feedback
-Will it be possible to share custom missions outside of the approval process? For instance, I end up making a replica of the shareware Doom's maps as a test. Could friends and fleet mates play it?

-How will you stop the "Repercussions of Evil" effect. That is to say, the whole mission is one large joke that ends with the frustrated player being told "NO, [rank] [playername], You ARE the Borg!"


.......And then [playername] was a robot.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    georgh wrote: »
    That is to say, the whole mission is one large joke that ends with the frustrated player being told "NO, [rank] [playername], You ARE the Borg!"


    .......And then [playername] was a robot.

    Damn it, you figured out my mission idea. :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    georgh wrote: »
    -Will it be possible to share custom missions outside of the approval process? For instance, I end up making a replica of the shareware Doom's maps as a test. Could friends and fleet mates play it?
    Since Cryptic has declared at every possible opportunity that the Foundry is not a modding tool and if I recall correctly we're not going to be able to import additional textures, models or assets, making a replica of a Doom map as a test seems unlikely. I may be wrong though and people could get very creative.

    I think your question is better re-phrased as: "Will my friends be able to play-test my missions even if my missions aren't published yet?"
    georgh wrote: »
    -How will you stop the "Repercussions of Evil" effect. That is to say, the whole mission is one large joke that ends with the frustrated player being told "NO, [rank] [playername], You ARE the Borg!"

    .......And then [playername] was a robot.
    From what I understand, there's going to be a rating system and if you make a mission that frustrates players, the idea is that frustrated players can give your mission a low rating which in turn means other missions will be offered to players searching for Foundry-made missions before your offending one comes up on the list. I don't think Cryptic is going to be able to monitor our missions directly.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    I think this is true. It ought to be possible for players to collaborate on a UGC mission. Sharing unapproved content would appear to be the only way to do that.

    EB
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Wouldn't people be able to share missions after the content is published by simply teaming up before starting a mission?? Maybe I'm missing the point here...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    i'm not sure but i think one of the devs mentioned that you will be able to 'invite' players to play you mission, (which got the ppl with no life ranting about spammers) but i think you will be able to share missions with friends b4 they are approved.
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